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In Remote as Ever, David Scrimgeour tells the story of his working life as a doctor in isolated communities in Australia's Western Desert in the late 1970s. Being involved in the …

Here are the political diaries of one of Australia's most promising national leaderspublished within twelve months of his resignation from officean historic first. The Latham …

Lonely Planet: The world's number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet's Best of Australia is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, …

A decade on from the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Australians are embroiled in one of the nation's longest military conflict-the war in Afghanistan. An Unwinnable …

Australia has always been reliant on 'great and powerful friends' for its sense of national security and for direction on its foreign policyfirst on the British Empire and now on …

Focusing on the incidence of the ‘westerns’ film genre in the 120-odd years of Australian cinema history, exploring how the American genre has been adapted to the changing …

The subjects of this book are five fascinating prime ministersGough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating and John Howardand how they view Australia.Until the 1960s, our …

Amid conditions of brutality that paralleled that of slavery, 'The First Fleet' was sent to a place no European but the legendary Captain Cook had ever seen. Left to live or die on …

A novel of breath-taking reach and inspired imagination, drawing on the discovery of Australia's oldest known human inhabitant. Shade lives peaceably with his second wife on the …

A vibrant and moving memoir of life in Australia and Europe in the middle of the twentieth century. "e;In Pursuit of a Dream"e; begins with a brief portrait of the author's …